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ALL mp3 files are properly tagged and titled. I have heard their sets and the audio is really not very good and has many quality issues. Reviewer: JJ James - favorite favorite favorite favorite - January 7, Subject: Fables What I found hysterical was Hall using the piltdown man as a factual reference in his "kabbalah unveiled" lecture as though it was true science fact.
The bible mentions people like Hall when it says "professing themselves wise they became fools". Most of what he spouts is coded language and theology of a universal socialist order ran and controlled by the ones who know, or the elite. This looks like a wonderful share I put the files up and have got it seeded.. I can see you connected to me at 0. I can upload at 2. All of us are currently stuck at I will always seed this once I get it fully downloaded I am a huge M.
Hall fan and these manuscripts are very special. I'm stuck at I kindly ask all the good people here to reseed! I promise I'll keep on seeding after my download is finished. Given the prestige of such a collection with an existing home in the form of the wisdom library at the PRS, why and how did the GRI manage to acquire such a significant portion of it? However, according to the Vice article , Alchemy in Art History?
As Above, So Below the collection was donated by her to the GRI, something which , according to a variety of sources is not true. According to the biography of Manly P Hall, Master of the Mysteries by Los Angeles Times writer Louis Sahagun, the story goes that Hall in his old age gradually withdrew from friends and family and became isolated and paranoid, shutting out lifelong friends and PRS members in favor of an assistant turned caretaker, Dr.
Unsurprisingly, Fritz was investigated for the murder of Hall at the insistence of Marie Hall and their daughter Jo Ann. Ultimately, the will that Hall had created was invalidated by a judge in leaving Marie Hall and the PRS board of directors to fight it out in court. It would be reasonable enough to do so via an entry in the finding aid or an introductory blurb on the GRI website, but by remaining completely mum I can only assume there is still some controversy that is trying to be avoided.
Cover and illustration from Hebdomas hebdomadum kabalistarum, Magorum Brachmarum Antiquorumque omnium sapientium, secreta misteria continens , Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. W hen Marie Hall was looking for a buyer for her share of the alchemy collection, there was all the possibility that it would be broken up and sold individually to private collectors, disappearing into vaults or private libraries to be forgotten and unused.
In this regard, the GRI can be applauded for having the vision to see it as a collection and not simply buy from it piece-meal, and even further for making it accessible to a broad audience via their collaboration with the Internet Archive , which saw to the digitiz ation of the entire Manly P Hall Alchemy collection and had put it online to view, download, and use for free.
David Brafman, the curator of rare books and of the recent exhibit at the GRI, has done a particularly fantastic job arguing for the importance of the collection to understanding the development of color in the history of art the principle reason for its acquisition in the first place, and a large portion of the research interest it draws. And yet, it was my experience as a librarian at the GRI that are many researchers who continue to perceive the collection as a specifically occult resource and feel that the emphasis on its art historical value betrays its real metaphysical value.
Hall collection as profane works i. Of course, preserving the occult value of objects t hrough their physical accessibility is not the mission of the GRI. Given the uniqueness and delicate nature of the collection being judicious about access is in fact a priority.
Digitization and limited access ensures long term preservation an explicit goal of the GRI. However, I believe th at there may be a certain responsibility to this vision of the occult reality of the Manly P. Hall collection, though how that could be realized given the very subtle but distinct visions of occult and art historical research is beyo nd me.
I would at the very least look to institutions that have perhaps more successfully married these two visions of research such as at the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica or The Ritman Library which specializes in alchemical and occult works but is well integrated into traditional academia. This debate is further complicated if we consider how Manly P Hall was able to begin collecting alchemical and occult material in the first place.
But Manly was not a wealthy man and had only encountered moderate success as a preacher and lecturer. When he began to conceive of his magnum opus in he knew that he would have to acquire the funds for travel and to purchase the necessary research material. In those days, alchemy was not a favorite subject with librarians nor of interest to the average reader. The only answer was to contact antiquarian book dealers and elicit their cooperation in the search for the items required.
Caroline and Estelle Lloyd were a mother daughter bohemian powerhouse whose family owned the fruitful oil fields in Ventura County, and who enjoyed the finer things in life like traveling, symphonies, stamp collecting and mingling with artists, writers and musicians. It is worth quoting at length from the Master of the Mysteries to further this point:. To that end, at what point does the benefactor become the curator? How can we reinterpret ownership and intent of the collection with this knowledge?
For me the Manly P Hall Alchemy opens-up so many questions when we consider how to interpret and understand the needs of a collection, the needs of the researcher, and the intent and vision of the collector and in this case, benefactors. Should there be multiple ontological modes of curation and handling for the occult much in the way there are or should be for indigenous cultural artifacts in archives? These are questions that we may need to ask ourselves as professionals when new frameworks of ownership, religion, curation, and audience emerge on the horizon.
Nevertheless , the Manly P Hall Alchemy archive remains one of the most uniquely occult collections in Los Angeles and worthy of further study in whatever capacity. Alchemical allegory from Das Buch mit Sieben Siegeln. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. Port Townsend, Washington: Process Media, Port Townsend, Washington: Process Media.
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